Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-02
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

The Excursion Season of 1887 Soon to
 Close-Excursion Parties That Went
 out Yesterday-On the Steamers Elm
 city and John R. Startn.
 The steamer John H. Starin carried several
 hundred Knights of Pythias to Glen Island
 yesterday. Comstock division and Rathbone
 dsvision were both well represented; mem-
 bers from the Sumner division of Hartford
 and the Bridgeport division were also in the
 party. The sail to the Island was much en-
 joyed by all, as entertaining programme,
 consisting of musical and literary selections by some of the members of the lodges, had been arranged. Among those who were with the Knights were Captain Peter Holland and family, Col EF. Durant and family, R. c. Greenfield and family, J. L. Edgehill and | wife, W. R. Wells and family, Joseph Elley, ! Miles Lamb, MT. and Mrs. W. H. Durant, | George s. Bassett, John Ruff and family, \ Miss Emma McCoom, Miss Mamie Myers. l John J. Kraft and family.
 l On the Starin also were the members and | friends ofWesleyan branch of the Y.P.S.C.E. ! of West Haven. The committee in charge of this party were B. F. Richards, w. Il. ! Brown and E. H. Gessner.
 TO MYSTIC ISLAND.
 Golden Rule Mutual Benefit association l and Crystal Wave division No. 2, Sons of | Temperance, went to Mystic Island yesterday | on the steamer Elm City. Among those who | took part in the excursion were Samuel Dem | ing, worthy patriarch of the division; Dr. c. M. Gallup, Wm. Sheffield, T. w. T. Curtiss, Harry Woodcock and wife, W. W. Johnson and wife, T. w. Garfield, Frank Barrett, AL | bert Crockett, Dr. H. Pendleton, Harry Hall,
 Harry Barrett, Chas. Gee, Wm. Bradley, l Samuel Crocker, James Bronson, Luther l T F Vu1o
 Samuel Chandler, Henry Hamilton, John Dickinson, Arthur Friend, Arthur Hill, John Dougherty, Cornelius Keeler, lWilliam H. Howard and family, Nathan Prescott and
 family, T. F. Friend, MT. Bronson and fam- l fly, James Northrop and family, Charles Carroll and family, William Moore and fam- | fly, Henry R. Hunt and family, H. Gussman, l Miss Emma Springfield, Miss Laura Dries ! bach, Miss Emma Desheene, Miss Maggie Woodcock, Miss Annie Newman, Miss Mag gie Burt, Miss Lizzie Wannass, Miss Hattie ! Stotts, Miss Nina Blakesley, Miss Hattie Bradley, Miss Jessie Scheophin, Miss Julia Eddy, Miss May Clarke, Miss Jennie Stotts, Miss Annie Wannass, Miss Emma Burt, Miss Oakson, Miss Jennie Atkins, Miss Grace Dorman, Miss Mamie and Julia Sullivan, of Amherst, N. H.
 ABIG PARTY AT PAWSoN PARK. Members of the Universalist church and Sunday school and the Eureka Temple of Honor, both of Middletown, picnieked at Pawson Park yesterday. They came down 1 the Air Line road on special train to the I number of $50.
 l The committee in charge was made up of | Joseph Merriman. Harley Bidwell and Edwin Davis, who represented the church society, and John Hopkins, Frederick Gibbons and Thomas Matthison, who oficiated for the | temperance society. Sherman Bacon was chairman.
 The Middletown party was greatly aug mented by the usual number of residents of | this city, who, on every pleasant day, em- bark on this steamer and enjoy the pleasures of the sail to Pawson Park, where the day is passed in very enjoyable manner. At 1O:3O | o'clock, when the steamer left her moorings, | fully 450 people were congregated on the decks enjoying the enlivening strains that | emanated from the instruments of the or chestra that was stationed on board, and i furnished the music for the dancing which
 was indulged in by many of the young folks. LAST EXCURSION OF THE SEASON. l The last regular excursion of the steamer | Elm City to Mystic Island, took place yes | terday, and the last excursion for this season will be on Sunday, September II, when the 1 trip will be to New York and return. On l Tuesday and Thursday of next week the 1 trip to Glen Island. These will be the last | excursions of this kind this season. There | will be plenty of accommodation on board l for all who wish to take pleasant sail on | the Sound and visit this beautiful resort be- | fore the season closes.
 TRINITY CHAPEL EXCURSION. Trinity chapel Sunday school give their l scholars an excursion to High Rock Grove | to- day. All friends of the Sunday school I are invited to participate with the scholars. I The train leaves the Derby depot at 9:3O a.